The African American Men’s Health Clinic d/b/a Black Men’s Health Clinic will connect residents in the Eastern Crescent through formal and informal relationships to improve access to healthcare. The Black Men’s Health Clinic provides services via partnerships and collaborations with a referral process for holistic and comprehensive services. Programmatic support includes health education, screenings for high-risk health threats, and outreach for men experiencing homelessness. The clinic identifies patient-needs, and coordinates appointments with warm handoffs or education classes and with partners referring their patients to the Black Men’s Health Clinic for appointment coordination or education classes outside their cultural competency, bandwidth, or area of functionality.

To serve as a no-wrong-door safety-net program for men of color by addressing disparities through effective strategies focused on decreasing mortality and morbidity rates among men of color via improved quality of life, self-health maintenance, and family lifestyle at no-additional-cost to clients. Making physical, behavioral, and social care more accessible in underserved and underrepresented communities with a focus on transforming and removing stigmas regarding typical healthcare systems into positive life-changing experiences.

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Goal One: Coordinate across the BMHC Safety-Net to provide health events and financial management classes by credentialed individuals of color.

Goal Type: This goal reflects our commitment to further our advocacy work for our organization and or cause area.

Goal Two: Coordinate physical, behavioral, and social determinant health screening and information events to identity, develop, and equip men of color to mitigate situations increasing their health risk-levels

Goal Type: This goal reflects our commitment to further our advocacy work for our organization and or cause area.

Goal Three: Conduct blood pressure management clinical evaluations for baselines, generate care plans and provide at-home blood pressure monitors, and facilitate weekly check-in sessions to train self-monitoring

Goal Type: This goal reflects our commitment to further our advocacy work for our organization and or cause area.

Describe an investment in leadership

N/A as we are a new startup.

This organization mobilizes for mission in the following ways:

• Strategic Partnerships

• Networks of Collective Impact Efforts

• Thought Leadership

• Raising Awareness

• Community Building

• Policy Advocacy

What are this organization’s external mobilizaton efforts?

The BMHC is uniquely connected to residents in the Eastern Crescent through formal and informal relationships. Leadership is deeply connected to the healthcare, government, and residential community resulting in the BMHC serving as a trusted health administrative agent for men of color by the Austin Area Urban League and Black Leaders Collective, to name a few. The BMHC also partners with several entities as a reciprocal voice to strengthen services provided to the targeted population for increased trust in a fragmented healthcare system. See collaboration list.

N/A as we are a new startup.